Let today be the beginning of your tomorrow

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"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.” — Bill Wilson

We have reached the end of 2011. What kind of year has it been for you? More importantly, what kind of year do you want 2012 to be?

New Year is a hinge. It is an artificial line drawn in the sands of time dividing what once was from what is yet to be.

That is actually true of every day. For some reason, we find significance in the fact the earth has made it one more time around the sun; planet killing asteroids have swung by for a visit (and missed); citizens have risen up and made their voices heard (as they do from time to time when life becomes too unbearable to sit idly by on the sidelines); and wars are winding down in some places while they’re churning up in yet others...